This is the duellist character class for the first edition of the world's most popular roleplaying game and all other old-school games compatible with it. This PDF contains the full class description... More > with all relevant tables.< Less

Originally published in the year 1882, "The Sword Prince" is the stranger-than-fiction biography of Danish-American swordmaster, boxer, duelist and soldier of fortune, Colonel Thomas Hoyer... More > Monstery.
Biographer Frederick Whittaker follows his subject from his boyhood years as a cadet in the Danish Navy, through his education in physical culture and swordsmanship at the great European military academies, and thence into his wild career as a sword-for-hire and adventurer in the USA and in Spanish America.
Colonel Monstery's life was a switchback of soaring victories and crushing defeats, punctuated by duels of honor against a range of desperate adversaries in many exotic locations.
This enhanced re-publication includes fifty sketches and photographs illustrating the life and times of the Sword Prince, supplemented by a new biographical essay and a bibliography.
Colonel Monstery is truly one of America's forgotten heroes of swordsmanship.< Less

Contains:
The Detective and the Landlady
The Adventure of the Late Actress
The Puzzle of the Dundas Separation
The Inquest of Cardinal Tosca
The Adventure of the Ricoletti Curse
The... More > Singular Affair of the Aluminum Crutch
The Adventure of the Prima Donna
The Adventure of the Telltale Butter Dish
The Problem of the Insane Duelist< Less

Colonizing the galaxy’s near reaches, the myriad, mutated children of Earth are governed by Imperium Terrestriana, headed by an elite neohuman minority fostering Convention, a body of civil law... More > featuring Code Duello, and trillions of eligible patricians and plebes wield their swords to settle private disputes. Imperial explorers discover parsecs-distant Dan, an idyllic world ripe for colonization, where enigmatic indigenes of superior intellect come and go like shadows, but lack habitations or a visible infrastructure. Abhoring violence, the telepathic Danii are horrified when sequestered duelists begin vanishing, and explain that mysterious “Higher Ones” are appalled by the wanton destruction of life wrought by victorious duelists, and have "taken miscreant smallswordsmen into their gentle care.” The unseen Higher Ones make their acute displeasure known through precipitate action in a chilling, ironic climax that raises provocative questions about neohumankind’s place in the eternal scheme of things.< Less

Duelling began as a customary mode of private dispute resolution at least as early as the 7th Century B.C.E. The Code of Honor, John Lyde Wilson's definitive code duello, represents a uniquely... More > American refinement of the custom.
Based mostly on personal experience, John Lyde Wilson wrote in 1838, describing a set of guidelines for duelists, and arguing that these
clear, rigorous standards would save lives rather than encourage duels. (C.R. Clark, II, ed.)< Less

Duelling began as a customary mode of private dispute resolution at least as early as the 7th Century B.C.E. The Code of Honor, John Lyde Wilson's definitive code duello, represents a uniquely... More > American refinement of the custom.
Based mostly on personal experience, John Lyde Wilson wrote in 1838, describing a set of guidelines for duelists, and arguing that clear, rigorous standards would save lives rather than encourage duels.
(C.R. Clark, II, ed.)< Less

Duelling began as a customary mode of private dispute resolution at least as early as the 7th Century B.C.E. The Code of Honor, John Lyde Wilson's definitive code duello, represents a uniquely... More > American refinement of the custom.
Based mostly on personal experience, John Lyde Wilson wrote in 1838, describing a set of guidelines for duelists, and arguing that clear, rigorous standards would save lives rather than encourage duels.
(C.R. Clark, II, ed.)< Less

Duelling began as a customary mode of private dispute resolution at least as early as the 7th Century B.C.E. The Code of Honor, John Lyde Wilson's definitive code duello, represents a uniquely... More > American refinement of the custom.
Based mostly on personal experience, John Lyde Wilson wrote in 1838, describing a set of guidelines for duelists, and arguing that these
clear, rigorous standards would save lives rather than encourage duels. (C.R. Clark, II, ed.)< Less

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